Computer Museum

[Tom Jennings]

This sounds really great, a good match of ponderous resources and
local talent.


On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, 'Computer Collector Newsletter' wrote:

> Out here in NJ, we've been extremely lucky with the new-ish local club,
> MARCH (Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists).  There's a new science
> musuem being built at a former army base, they already have official
> non-profit status, and they even inherited an existing computer collection.
> They found our group, and we found them, via mutual contacts at the Trenton
> Computer Festival.  Turns out they wanted to find a group of people who
> could manage their collection.  So basically they are "giving" us a museum
> to run.  A few of us already toured the base and they've got dozens and
> dozens of acres of land and empty buildings.  At one point they took us to a
> building called "the library" (the base was also a college at one point) and
> they said, oh, that building's yours!  We also learned that part of the
> collection we're getting includes an actual ENIAC card.  Cool!
>
> Our club isn't listed yet, but the facility itself is at infoage.org (our
> club is temporarily at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/midatlanticretro/ ) ...
> I guess the moral of all this is that it's helpful to make computer museums
> part of existing, related facilities, rather than trying to start from
> scratch.
>
>
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
> To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:27 PM
> Subject: Re: Computer Museum
>
>>
>> Personally I wouldn't give anything to anyone who didn't have space
>> for it already though - they should be able to amass enough of a
>> collection first to know if it's viable, get some display space, and
>> then put out an appeal to enthusiasts.
>>
>> cheers
>>
>> Jules
>>
> This helps me understand why there is very little reponse to my JUST A BUCK
> campaign asking for $1 from each person that visit's the museum website.
> There seems to be very little(if any) help for start-ups in the museum
> sector.  I have seem two computer museum starts-ups get large funding help
> but the people starting them were already rich and their friends gave big
> bucks ( 1 million  or more).
>>
>